Diana Rigg
Diana Rigg
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBEis an English actress. She played Emma Peel in the 60's TV series The Avengers, and plays Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones and Sutton in You, Me and the Apocalypse. She has had an extensive career in film and theatre, including playing the title role in Medea, both in London and New York, for which she won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She was made CBE in 1988 and...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth20 July 1938
CityDoncaster, England
The thing I absolutely hate is when directors don't know what they want, and then they ask you to do it this way, and then maybe that way, and maybe that way, because they haven't made up their minds what they want. So you're running around in circles trying to give them what they want.
Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn.
They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before.
If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted. Women who moan and carp about that sort of thing are stupid
I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't had.
We were both from the north,' she says. 'We cut to the quick and didn't take any rubbish. And besides, there's the fact that he did love me.